ok i downloaded a game on my computer halo and it does slows down a little at times so i pressed alt control and delte and went to proccess and left cicked on halo and went all the way down to set priorty and made it real time it works good now wit no slowing but it gave me a warning warning changig the procces can cause unstable results should i not do it please help wut does it mean thanks
2006-08-29 15:56:13 · 4 answers · asked by moka 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
It's warning you that giving priority or reducing priority for a process can result in poor performance or a crash.
If you set explorer (this is the behind the scenes of your OS) to lowest priority the operating system would likely crash after using a program or two like Halo.
If you only changed Halo to high then you are fine it will only get top priority when you run the game.
2006-08-29 16:04:47 · answer #1 · answered by Answerkeeper 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many different priority levels. Suppose the game requires another process to do something for it, call it "helper". If the game is higher priority than the helper, the computer could "hang" although modern programs are seldom quite that stupid.
On another level altogether, if you raise the priority high enough, and have a bug in your progam, you might never get to access certain important services, like reading from a disk or page faulting.
2006-08-29 23:06:21 · answer #2 · answered by Computer Guy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Play chicken! Windows system might crash... up to you to play, or not!
Me? I run it in a shell, in Linux!
http://pclinuxos.com is FREE, with 1900 free games, etc.
http://transgaming.com/gamesdb has 1600 WIN32 games for linux.
2006-08-29 23:00:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You'll be fine. If anything messes up, restart and and it will reset the setting
2006-08-29 23:00:09 · answer #4 · answered by ifoam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋